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The Cost of Fame: Rock Idol
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ISBN13: 9798194037865
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At nineteen years old, Nina Bautista was the Voice of Italy, standing at the center of the Cinecittà spotlights with the world at her feet and a glass trophy in her hand. But when she defies the omnipotent mogul Marco Rossi on live television, rejecting a contract that would have liquidated her soul for a seat on the charts, she finds out exactly how loud the silence can be. Overnight, the Golden Girl is transformed into a ghost. Blacklisted from every studio in Rome and her prize money frozen in a corporate chokehold, Nina is starving for a frequency to call her own when she meets Lionel, a magnetic indie-rocker who promises her a sanctuary in the ancient hills of Viterbo-a place where the music is raw, the rules are gone, and the suits can never find her. But the sanctuary is a masterpiece of deception. Beneath the faded frescoes of Villa San Valentino lies a high-tech narcotics laboratory, and the Independent Tour Lionel and his manager Christian have planned is actually a high-stakes logistics chain spanning the borders of Europe. Nina's fame is no longer a career; it is a weapon. As she is forced to perform in smoke-choked clubs from Paris to Berlin, her father's vintage Gibson packed with high-grade narcotics, she realizes the horrific depth of her utility: she is a human shield, a celebrated face used to make the law look away while the poison moves. Surrounded by a psychotic captor, a reluctant ally with a drum kit and a debt, and the looming shadow of the Neapolitan syndicate, Nina must navigate a labyrinth of checkpoints and VIP balconies where the wolf is always watching.
The final encore in a Roman amphitheater is not a homecoming, but a pre-scripted execution. Pinned between a mafia war in the corridors and a militarized police raid orchestrated by the very mogul she tried to escape, Nina faces the ultimate structural trap. To survive the crossfire and reclaim her name, she must descend into the deepest silence of all, trading her powerhouse voice for the raspy whisper of a witness. With the help of a disgraced lawyer who knows the mogul's secrets, Nina begins a slow, methodical reclamation of her reality. The Cost of Fame is a visceral, psychologically charged journey through the ruins of celebrity and the enduring power of personal sovereignty, proving that even when the music stops, the truth can still find its own rhythm.
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